Besides hedge fund manager Dan Loeb using CIA interrogators on his team there is another Hedge Fund Manager has CIA interrogators give all his potential hires a personality test. Hedge fund manager Jason H. Karp, the [...]

Latest buyside people moves and hedge fund hires. VINCENT STEENMAN, formerly a partner, the head of research and a portfolio manager at Zadig Asset Management L.L.P., joined Carmignac Gestion as a fund manager in January 2013.

While hedge funds are hiring and constantly looking for new talent big investment banks have been cutting their staff. Latest job cuts announced today by Morgan Stanley - who is planninmg to axe 1600 jobs - [...]

Goldman Energy Research Head David Greely Leaves for Bridgewater. Goldman Energy Research Head David Greely Leaves for Bridgewater. David Greely, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. head of energy research, is joining Bridgewater Associates LP, according a spokeswoman [...]

Despite contrasting reports on performance as of late, event-driven or “special event” hedge funds are selectively adding personnel, and more importantly, scooping up senior talent from competing funds. With the European financial crisis and continued economic [...]

Yesterday during an interview on Bloomberg it was mentioned the hedge fund industry was at 2.6 trillion, and we hear increased activity. What do you think? Do you agree with this piece below- Contributed to Alpha [...]

By Thomas Sidenburg, Director Global SearchLeadingAlpha Search | Tyler Capital Group On the whole, how many jobs were created, net of being destroyed, by the hedge fund industry in the current year compared to the previous year? [...]

George Soros’s Soros Fund Management LLC is in talks to hire Highbridge Capital Management LLC’s Chief Risk Officer Subu Venkataraman Venkataraman would assume the same role at Soros’s $23 billion family office, said the people, asking [...]

US hedge fund hires former Goldman executive Steve McGuinness. McGuinness was co-chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management until early 2011. From 2006- 2008 he was co-head of the US investment bank’s Special Situations Group, [...]

Hedge fund and other Wall Street job interviews that keep you from getting hired The interview ended and I was thoroughly embarrassed. I meekly apologized for my performance, saying "Sorry Ken, I'm just not familiar with [...]

$3.46 Million For a Lunch With Warren Buffet - Hedge Fund Managers Most Expensive Job Interview Warren Buffett hired the hedge fund manager who won the last two private lunches with him that are part of [...]

Wall Street Biggest banks have lost their most profitable credit traders to hedge funds In the 5 years that John Silvetz made about $700 million for Deutsche Bank AG by trading corporate bonds and credit derivatives, [...]

Updated list of hedge funds launching. Two GLG Partners emerging-markets managers based in Hong Kong will launch their own hedge fund. Hedge fund will be Asia-focused macro fund. Kelvin Woo and Joe Zhang will leave the [...]

Family offices are looking for top talent from hedge funds and private equity firms. They are also making their own deals to buy companies or back start-ups. The earliest family offices were created for wealthy industrialists [...]

Wall Streeters spend a lot of time in their offices and at least in their early days, are more concerned with meeting business contacts than a significant other. Kelly Granat and Susan Boland Hedge fund power [...]

Needham man among 7 arrested in insider trading sweep Dell scheme said to net over $60m A former hedge fund manager from Needham was among seven people charged yesterday by federal authorities in an insider trading [...]